“... the rest of the poetry in this anthology reads like replayed Pound, Zukofsky and Olson. Even among Ken Edwards’s ‘Younger Poets’, there’s a faded Sixties feeling to the rhythms, an angrily nostalgic glow, though sometimes a phrase or a line (‘Teacosies portraying “The Poet’s head in the throes of inspiration” ’) surfaces like a ...”

“... make much of Raworth’s ‘cinematic’ technique and frequently get it wrong, saying, as Ken Edwards does, that pace is achieved through a state of ‘permanent dissolve’. Dissolves, currently the tired TV editor’s friend, take the edge off and slow things down: Raworth’s speed is in his remorseless cutting, statement to statement, no ...”

James MacGibbon: Fashionable Radicals, 22 January 1987

“... Colin MacInnes. There was also the peculiar satisfaction of publishing books right outside one’s ken. When we took on Great Horses of the Year, my ignorance of the turf was such that when one of my salesmen suggested that the bookmaker William Hill might send out a leaflet, I had to inquire who Mr Hill was. I tracked him down, and although he declined a ...”

Tobias Jones: The politics of football, 7 May 1998

“... so high that each share was split into ten, to draw in more buyers. In March 1995, chairman Martin Edwards sold 1.2 million shares, and pocketed £1.5 million. In 1996, after the second Sky deal, shares rose again to £4.50 each; Edwards sold £3.7 million shares, making £16.6 million. Peter Reid, the ex-Everton midfielder ...”

Ruth Bernard Yeazell, 30 January 1992

“... in county gaols. In your pursuit of pleasure, you Have mistresses who treasure you (They have no ken Of other men Beside whom they can measure you). A flock of sheep, and you the only ram – No wonder you’re the wonder of Siam! It’s a marvellous bit of musical theatre, but the attack bears little resemblance to the protests that the original Anna ...”

“... Slack work from the Notebook years is no substitute for ‘The Quaker Graveyard’ and ‘Mr Edwards and the Spider’. To omit early Lowell constitutes censorship, not choice. Several kinds of density lie outside Vendler’s range, including that tortuous grappling with impacted matter which tends not to write itself in light. Her taste for grotesquerie ...”

Iain Sinclair: The Razing of East London, 19 June 2008

“... Bow Creek, the point of access to the Lower Lea, he was ridiculed by the man who succeeded him, Ken Livingstone. ‘A gimmick’. A megalomaniac right-wing fantasy. By 2008, in a frank admission during the run-up to the mayoral election, Livingstone boasted that he had feigned enthusiasm for the 2012 Olympics as a way of generating funds for brownfield ...”